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“Moveable Type” to end 17-year run in The New York Times’s lobby
“Moveable Type” to end 17-year run in The New York Times’s lobby “Moveable Type,” the public art installation in the New York Times’s lobby, is ending its 17-year run. The Times, which is replacing the exhibit as part of an update to its lobby, will share further details in the coming months.
Drawing on the latest content from the Times, the artwork collects and digests news stories, then visually reconstitutes them into constellations of words, phrases, and diagrams that dance across hundreds of small, low-tech screens accompanied by clicks, whirs, and tones. This was the context in 2003, when The Times’s leadership asked statistician Mark Hansen and artist Ben Rubin to create “Moveable Type” as a bridge between the paper’s 150-year journalistic history and the as-yet uncharted landscape of digital news. “You end up with a running narrative,” Carr told NPR’s Brooke Gladstone in a 2007 interview, observing that the artwork offered “bits which are stored and recalled in ones and zeroes by all of us later and assembled into some kind of comprehensible picture of the world that we live in, I think it’s a really great metaphor.”
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